ABSTRACT
This chapter charts the processes by which pigs reoccupied spaces within wartime British towns and cities. It explores how the demands of World War II temporarily redefined the place, and influence, of the pig within British towns and cities. The chapter examines how pigs were physically repositioned in urban spaces. It also examines outbreaks of various diseases in pigs within wartime British cities. This reveals how pigs and other nonhumans blocked pig keepers' attempts to rear their animals within urban environments. The chapter focuses on pig's utilization into the war effort through an analysis of their slaughter and conversion into consumable meat. This intersects with longer-term historical debates surrounding slaughter, cultural sensibilities, and the removal of tangible signs of death within urban spaces, by uncovering how slaughtering practices were extended into visible locations for the needs of war.
